Andhra Pradesh State Chief Minsiter N.Chandrababu Naidu reacting over the Finance Minister Arun Jaitely’s Budget is disappoint to the State.

At a review meeting with Ministers on the budget vis-à-vis allocations to the State at the Secretariat here today, he said that he spoke to the TDP MPs over phone on the same. Disclosing the details of the meeting, Minister for Agriculture Somireddy Chandra Mohan Reddy expressed displeasure over the Union Budget. The government pinned hopes on the budget as it is last full-fledged budget. The Centre ha allocated funds for railway project in Maharashtra. However, there was no mention of Visakhapatnam Railway Zone, he said.

He said that the TDP MPs would raise these issues and injustice done to the State in Parliament during discussion on the budget. The TDP would wait until discussion on the budget was over in Parliament. The Centre might release/allocate funds to the State after discussion on the budget, he said.

BUDGET 2018

1. Increase the custom duty on mobiles from 15% to 20% and on some other mobile parts to 15%, and some parts of TVs to 15%.

13. 5 lakh WiFi hotspots to be set up in rural areas to provide easy Internet access.

14. Redevelopment of 600 major railway stations has been taken up; Mumbai transport system is being expanded; suburban network of 160 km planned for Bengaluru...

15. The government proposes to revamp the system of sanctioning of loans to SMEs. The information required for sanctioning the loan will be linked with GSTN and all required information can be fetched from GSTN Portal. It will help to grant the loans quickly and will help in reducing processing time.

16. UDAN will connect 56 unserved airports in India.

17. An institute is coming up at Vadodara to train people for the bullet train programme.

18. AMRUT programme will focus on water supply to all households in 500 cities. Water supply contracts for 494 projects worth 19,428 core awarded.

19. Rs 1,48,528 crore is the capital expenditure for the Indian Railways for 2018-19... All trains to be progressively provided with WiFi, CCTV and other state-of-the-art amenities.

22. Women’s contribution reduced to 8.33% towards PF in the first 3 years for new EPF accounts... The government will contribute 12% of EPF contribution for new employees in all sectors for the next three years.

23. 70 lakh farming jobs have been created this year, shows an independent study.

28. Mass formalization of MSME sector is happening after demonetization and GST.

29. Total 187 projects sanctioned under the Namami Gange programme.

30. 24 new government medical colleges and hospitals to be set up by upgrading existing district hospitals.

31. Rs 600 crore for nutritional support to TB patients.

32. One medical college per every three constituency.

33. Have decided to take healthcare protection to a new aspirational level. Launching a flagship National Health Protection Scheme to cover 10 crore poor and vulnerable families, benefiting approximately 50 crore. Providing Rs 5 lakh per family per year for medical reimbursement, under National Health Protection Scheme. This will be world’s largest health protection scheme.

35. Eighteen new schools of planning and architecure will be set up... I propose railway university in Vodadara.

36. Eklavya schools to be started for Scheduled Tribe population... Scheme for revitalizing school infrastructure, with an allocation of 1 lakh crore rupees over four years. Called RISE - Revitalizing Infrastructure in School Education.

37. Integrated B.Ed programme to be initiated for teachers, to improve quality of teachers.